The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-08-07

Mawiey his interest. got his mortgage
extended indefinitely. What il more.
his business picked up so that he paid
large sum on account all around
among his creditors. They all said:
elisha is doing it for him. He
painted and refufnished the old Snow
House. He ran slightly into debt in
doing it, but his girls had sonic new
clothes sent them from New York. He
donned new suit of broad-cloth. and
he was happy. He was on his feet
Slayton was utterly nonplussed. In
vain the willy practitioner went about
spreading doubts as to Elisha's having
any money whatever. why don't he
buy that organP" he kept saying, until
people began to wonder why indeed.
As soon as the rumor spread about
that Elisha was childless, and that he
intended leaving his money in equal
shares to his six nieces, they went of
literally like hot cakes. Mawley jun
ior, who really loved the girl, married
Bessie, and then they were all married
off in patches of two, until the young
est refused TO marry at all, saying, with
her finger at her lip. "she preferred to
stay with her father"
In one year all this happened.
Amasa Snow was now successful
man-his debts paid and his practice
increasing. One day the rumor reached
htn,-why had not Elisha paid for that
organ?
He went to Elisha. 'It's time" he
said, for you to disappear. i"
I'm very contented here, protested
Elisha, .'reading the newspapers and
sitting in the hotel. 1t agrees with
me. don't want to disappear.
He liked the adulation extended to
him on the ground that he was mil
lionaire. He played the easy, well-fed,
rich plutocrat revisiting his New Eng
land home to perfection. His acting
was consummate, because it was nature
itself, without mirror being held up
to it. lie had just that amount of mar
rowness, of close-fistedpcss, of saga
cious doubt as to the motives of men
who approached him with schemes for
investments he acted the millionaire to
perfection, and he never overdid it.
"Amasa, / can't CO." he said.
"Thcy think I'm such a good man to
make money. They have actually
brought money to me to make more
| for them. Yes, I've received over fifty
thousand dollars for investment within
| the last month.
Thunder and gunsr' exclaimed
Amasa. This is dreadful! see State
| prison yawning before us!'
ats just what the Grand American
| Spreatl-eagle Mine needs said Elisha,
spreading himself out-"a little mon
| ey."
..Well, take the money and go, then
go! | will have nothing to do with
this-nothng!"
Amasa was very angry. He resolved
to be responsible for his brother no
longer. He went to his daughters, all
but one married and in happy, well-to-
do homes. "Your uncle and | have
| nau TOW, nc sdiu' liz 10 Soih {
back to California.
And the organ, the new library, the
gymnasium?
! ssWell, he is mad about something
He says the town has sighted him.
But one thing must be understood
whatever he does-I wash my hands Of
him forever"
Elisha did leave few days after
He took away about a hundred thou
sand dollars of widows and orphans
fund, went to San Francisco, put his
money into various enterprises, pait
the beneficiaries eight per cent. inter
est, was honest as the day, and died ;
few years ago worth n great deal o
money, which he left, share and share
alike, to his brothers six girls, and hi
left a thousand dollars for the new
organ.
Amasa still lives-a fairly well-to-dt
old country lawyer-slightly in deb
still, in East Chesterville. But he i
the adored grandpapa of twelve of tn
dearest little grandchildren, and h
often says to them, benignly: "Chil
dren, have put you all-and myself
on our feet. Yes, but l had to tel
your mothers an awful lien'
what was the lie, gandpopperP"
II had to say the LATEST man alive
I had to say the penniless old rascal
your grandfather's brother. my dears
who had robbed me of all had in on
of his COMPOUNDED mines, the Grea
: American Sprcad-eagle Gold and Sill
vcr-I had to say, and STAN to it, tina
!: he was one of the biggest millionaire
on the Pacific coast. But that lie ha
put us all on our feet"-Rtchdrd L
J Roe, IN Harper's Weekly.